{"id":32149,"date":"2023-08-22T16:22:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T22:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/former-san-juan-county-sheriffs-employee-arrested-in-florida\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:53:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:53:33","slug":"former-san-juan-county-sheriffs-employee-arrested-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/former-san-juan-county-sheriffs-employee-arrested-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Former San Juan County sheriff\u2019s employee arrested in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=993b6247-eb20-4c33-bb5e-12c70caba257&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1300\" height=\"887\" alt=\"The Farmington Police Department and San Juan County, N.M., Sheriff\u2019s Office on Sunday found and stopped a car that matched descriptions provided to the agencies suspected to be involved in a spree of broken car windows in Durango, Farmington and San Juan County, N.M. Farmington police officers are questioning a 17-year-old male, a 17-year-old female and an 18-year-old male in connection with the broken windows.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Farmington Police Department and San Juan County, N.M., Sheriff\u2019s Office on Sunday found and stopped a car that matched descriptions provided to the agencies suspected to be involved in a spree of broken car windows in Durango, Farmington and San Juan County, N.M. Farmington police officers are questioning a 17-year-old male, a 17-year-old female and an 18-year-old male in connection with the broken windows.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A former San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office employee was arrested Aug. 21 in Okaloosa County, Florida, where he was employed as an I.T. manager at the Okaloosa County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Eli Lisko, 46, of Fort Walton Beach, was charged with child sexual abuse, which allegedly occurred between January 1995 and October 1997 in San Juan County.<\/p>\n<p>Lisko retired from the San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office in 2021, according to the department\u2019s social media page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLisko was a valued member of the San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office for many years. The crimes he is charged with occurred prior to his employment with the Sheriff\u2019s Office,\u201d Sheriff Shane Ferrari said in a prepared statement. \u201cRegardless of our personal or professional relationships, our commitment to safeguarding our community and our duty to bringing criminals to justice is our highest priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The allegations against Lisko were investigated by the San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office, which stated he was investigated for criminal sexual penetration of a child under the age of 13.<\/p>\n<p>The Okaloosa County Sheriff\u2019s Office was made aware of the arrest warrant for Lisko, and the office stated he was \u201cimmediately terminated\u201d from his position as a civilian employee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Lisko was an I.T. manager employed with the OCSO since September 2022. It goes without saying we took prompt action to assist New Mexico investigators in every way possible,\u201d Sheriff Eric Aden said in a prepared statement. \u201cI want to thank our personnel for their dedication and professionalism in handling the situation. Our hearts go out to the victim, and we pray justice will be served.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lisko is being held in the Okaloosa County Jail pending extradition to New Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eli Lisko will face child-sex charge in New Mexico<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-32149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"Website Administrator","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81692,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32149\/revisions\/81692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32149"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=32149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}